The Story So far: The Mindful Activist Topic ArchiveAsk me anything. :)What are ideas for upcoming episodes of The Mindful Activist?Born into a power hierarchy involving parents, siblings, and others we later discover are virtually powerless beyond the walls of our home.I saw my mother and father as the two most powerful beings. My siblings as a mixed bag. My neighbors as curiosities. My peers as rivals and friends and potentials. Older children as a source of great danger and excitement. Aliens as something only inPerhaps all humans are born initially into a hierarchy and therefore hierarchy is trained into us from the beginning.To imagine a world in which all beings have a reasonable level of power, that balances the ideal of equality with the ideal of privacy and generous personal boundaries and autonomy is difficult...
Perhaps all humans are born initially into a hierarchy and therefore hierarchy is trained into us from the beginning. (hivelink)